BVU Students Earn Coveted Sweeps Award in National Media Contest

Thirty-six student works were cited for excellence in efforts ranging from radio to TV to feature writing, podcasts, politics and more. BVU students earned the most points in 2018 and will receive a first-place plaque in the fall convention in Atlanta.

Buena Vista University’s digital media students and organizations earned 36 awards in the annual Society for Collegiate Journalists (SCJ) national media contest. These results afforded BVU top honors in the national contest’s newly established sweeps awards.

SCJ’s national contest entries are judged by professionals in the media industry. The organization currently has more than 100 chapters across the nation, and all active members are eligible to enter original works in the contest. Each chapter may submit up to three entries per category, with more than 50 categories covering all media formats. The national contest does not distinguish divisions by the size of the school or chapter. Student work published or aired in the 2018 calendar year was eligible for this year’s contest.

“When we look at the size of schools that consistently participate in this national contest, BVU is by far the smallest, and yet our students’ work is widely recognized across all platforms by professionals in the field.”

Dr. Andrea Frantz

In its biennium convention in Louisville, KY last fall, national delegates voted to create a sweeps award for the top three university media programs based on accumulated points in the contest. BVU students earned the most points in 2018 and will receive a first-place plaque in the fall convention in Atlanta, GA.

Dr. Andrea Frantz, professor of digital media at BVU and executive director of SCJ, chartered BVU’s chapter in the fall of 2012. “I’ve begun to think of BVU’s student media as ‘the little engine that could,’” says Frantz. “When we look at the size of schools that consistently participate in this national contest, BVU is by far the smallest, and yet our students’ work is widely recognized across all platforms by professionals in the field.”

The SCJ national awards that BVU media organizations and students received include:

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